Letchworth 18- Twickenham 18

Twickenham gained a valuable point in their battle against relegation on Saturday against Letchworth, but if only they could have played the whole eighty minutes as they did for the first twenty and the last twenty, the outright win would have been theirs.

Ts scored their first try after only five minutes when the forwards turned over Letchworth possession, fed the ball to Phil Astbury who scored under the post for John Bradford to convert. Only five minutes later a nice blindside break by scrum half Andy Rogers and a quick feed to Russell Witham saw the winger go over for T’s second try, shortly followed by a John Bradford penalty gave Twickenham a fifteen point lead.

At this point Ts suddenly went off the boil, lost concentration and allowed Letchworth back in the game, leaking a penalty and a converted try, but more importantly ceding the initiative to the home side. Another Bradford penalty left the half time score at 10 –18.

Letchworth produced most of the pressure at the start of the second period and had Twickenham very much on the back foot and looking likely to lose, especially when they conceded a penalty followed shortly by another try bringing the scores level. At that point Ts seemed to come alive again and with fresh legs from the substitutes again started to perform as they had at the start and finished the game the more impressive of the two sides but were unable to convert they pressure into points and the tied game was perhaps the fairest result.

Team: P.Moses, C.Tytherleigh, D.Thomas ( M.Nicholson,50), P.Goff, J.Davies, A.Wakefeild, S.Colquorn, C.I’anson, A.Rogers (J.Peters 50), P.Astbury, R.Howden, J.Foley, J.Clark, R.Witham, J.Bradford (M.Wadden).